Daniel Wigton on Nostr: In the end we are all gardeners. Once every problem is solved all that is left is ...

In the end we are all gardeners.

Once every problem is solved all that is left is growing, tending, and being. Either what we build brings us closer to Eden or it doesn't. Social media is mixed. It allows ideas to grow and flourish, but it can also distract us from putting our toes in the dirt and being present to those present.

I still wrestle with what the final form of technology would look like given a billion years of evolution. I don't know what it would do, but I know that it would do it invisibly, evident only in that we'd have made all the word a garden.

quoting nevent1q…dc67

Something I like to remind myself in tech but especially while I'm building here on nostr, is this:

Social media and internet-based communications, are not essential for human existence. What I mean, is while tech has improved the world and become "essential" we as humans can and would find a way to work, live, and thrive without it like we've done throughout history. It's a reminder that many professions have real-world ties to the work they do. Not all problems need to be solved with technology and not everyone gets the opportunity to step away from "real-life" to try to improve upon luxuries of life with computers. And I think that's all I mean, what we're building on used to be an expensive luxury, which has only been cheaper from "subsidies". I think this could largley be applied elsewhere, maybe baking and so on.

I think it is a privilege (and a risk too) to be able to be able to build with much of ideological motivation many/most of us have for freedom, sovereignty, liberty, and decentralization. The ability to continue and even get paid to, is a blessing.

This is not cynicism, I'm quite optimistic, but I want to remain grounded at this point in my life. I do not speak for other builders, only myself.